neat napkins!

Call me uncivilised but I had never really used napkins when eating (at home) unless i was having a dinner party and they matched my tableware.....

....enter SuperD with his rich juicy sauces and creamy, sticky risottos and napkins were promoted to every day usage!!! But with no nice napkin holder (and HATING all the ugly ones in the shops) i sketched a rough outline of the "dream-napkin-holder" and SuperD got to making sawdust!!!

Here are the measurements we used, this fits the (large size) ikea napkins:

SuperD hand-sawed the little windows and hand-carved the little hearts (cute!!). The wood was pretty poor quality (being a sort of chipboard sandwich) so hammering nails in caused a few splitting problems. SuperD recommended a staple gun to join, as shown below, and a little bit of wood glue for good measure!

Then paint it up and admire!
I LOVE the little hearts (you may have realised by now that i'm partial to chubby heart shapes). The rod across the middle acts to weigh down the napkins so you can set it outside and they don't all blow away in the wind....however with the wind strength being what it is in my part of the world...it would take me weighing them down to prevent them floating off...and even then, maybe not (she says "wishful-thinking-ly")
But it also can be used as a carrying handle! (excuse my weirdly deformed hand in this pic...its a difficult shot to take without "go-go-gadget arm!!!"